This coming Friday the 13th (August 2021) is the first ever Dativerse virtual conference, hosted by our DataGrillen friends William and Benjamin. According to their… Read More »Join me on 13 August 2021 for Dativerse
Although I don’t write about it much on this website, I am on the autism spectrum, and I have ADHD. I need to sit at… Read More »Accessibility is not just about slides
This post is part of the series I kicked off here. You can read my post about captions here. Let’s talk about slides! Many of… Read More »Accessibility in your PowerPoint slide deck
Next week on Wednesday 28 July 2021, I will be presenting a brand-new session titled “How SQL Server stores that data type” for the free… Read More »Join me at the EightKB virtual conference on 28 July 2021
My user group, the Calgary Data User Group, has been recording videos since April of this year, so at the time of this writing we… Read More »Accessibility after the fact: closed captions for videos
Today I want to write about the community that brought us all together. The community that got this very website on your radar. The community… Read More »On accessibility in our community
In early 2011 Jes Borland invited us to write about aggregations: I want to hear how you solved business problems with aggregate functions. I want… Read More »T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #015: Aggregations
It has been some time since I last wrote about Azure SQL Database. Although it has been more than three years since SQL Server 2017… Read More »A summary of new features in Azure SQL Database
If you’d like to check out the previous instalment in this series on storing dates and times, click here. I avoided mentioning this data type… Read More »How SQL Server stores data types: DATETIMEOFFSET
Whenever I restore a database — especially one I obtained outside of my regular environment (for example a customer database, a development database, or even… Read More »Things to check when restoring a database
Last week I wrote about recovering data after an unplanned outage, and this week I’m contemplating a thing that would be considered bad in those… Read More »The curse of the blank page
One of my special interests as an autistic person is understanding mechanical components of a computer, both analog and digital. In the olden days, we… Read More »How I tackle disaster recovery
A few years ago, I wrote that a CPU is “a hot mess of on-off switches.” There’s more to it than that when you get… Read More »A quick primer on binary and hexadecimal
In February 2011, Pat Wright invited us to talk about Automation: So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation! It can be… Read More »T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #015: Automation
At the end of 2010, Sean McCown (blog | Twitter) invited us to talk about resolutions: Things like getting certified, or perfecting a process, or… Read More »T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #014: Resolutions